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Soviet Georgia: Socialism, Stalin, and the Collapse of the USSR

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My Great Grandfather's Life

My great grandfather was forced out of his village and condemned to look for work, which is considered a lower position than a peasant. He doesn't even have a child. So very precarious life. My grandfather, my great grandfather works his whole life and goes to cities all over where there is work. He's a chef in rich people's homes. He gets fired in one of the places because his, his relatives are revolutionaries and they find out that they're related. And so I can speak from him writing what life was like and him describing his, his father.

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